In January 2016 Larysa Dmytrivna Berezivska, Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, Director of V. Sukhomlynskyi State Scientific and Educational Library of Ukraine, initiated the establishment of the Department of Sociocultural Communication and International Contacts on the basis of the Sociocultural Communication Sector.

The main objectives of the Department are to maintain and develop the library’s sociocultural communication as a component of information support for the educational sphere; to establish international contacts in the course of integration of Ukraine into the European scientific and educational space;